Mick Dodge, who is starring in the documentary series The Legend of Mick Dodge, follows his adventure on Hoh Rain Forest of the Pacific Northwest. Mick solely allows the camera to support him and travels barefoot demonstrating how he can survive in nature by becoming a nomad. Developing some new tactics on survivalism, Mick continued his journey becoming a part of the earth. While many of us like to indulge in modern century, Mick has entirely a unique story to share.
How Much Is Mick's Net Worth?
As an American reality TV personality, Mick has a net worth of $500 thousand. He has accumulated his fortunes from featuring in the National Geographic Channel's reality TV Show The Legend of Mick Dodge. The show, which first premiered on 7 January 2014, has been able to gather positive reviews and views from the audiences and is successfully running till now.
Mick used to love outdoors from his childhood and was engaged in the Marine Corps where he served for six years. He then started a job as a mechanic in Fort Lewis. In the year 1991 due to the stress in the modern living, Mick decided to retreat the contemporary world and lived as a nomad in Olympic Peninsula of Western Washington. While in the forest, he creates a fitness program using the equipment provided by nature called EarthGym.
Mick's Life Away From Modern World
Mick, who has chosen a primitive lifestyle, walks barefoot in the woods gathering berries and hunting the birds. When sleeping in a nearby cave, he starts a fire to warm himself. He often teaches about mix Japanese warrior techniques, survivalism, natural philosophy, and human instincts.
When it comes to forest food, Mick likes to drink home-made olive oil right of the bottle and claims that it is incredibly healthy. He also carries a jar that contains testicles of an elk, which he considers as ambrosia. As he consumes the natural and organic components of the earth, he looks active and healthy even at his old age.
Mick is enjoying his single life. On his journey, he has formed an incredible bond with women following a brother-and-sister relationship with them. As the reality star is more inclined towards developing a romance with nature than with ladies, he doesn't have a wife. But in early 2010, he met a Cedar woman, and they both shared a vision of the mountains and land.
Mick, who spends time in solitude, has some close friends and family whom he likes to visit. When he received the invitation of his best friend daughter's wedding ceremony, he walked barefoot for almost four weeks to participate in the wedding which took place in Northern California.
Dodge (second from left) with his close friends (Photo: Kiwirereport.com)
Mick has shared the three passions of his life. He mentioned the first one is his teacher to whom he wanted to show what the Hoh has taught him about training and living. His second love and passion is his community. And mentioning his third passion, he said he has been pursuing to train and share a physical practice in the Earth Gym, so he agreed to appear in TV series.
Mick is connecting more intuitively with the natural world and wandering across the Olympic mountains delving into his solitary life. The reality TV star who is following his journey away from the society and modern century is reportedly unmarried.
Family Life
Mick's great-grandparents settled in the region of Olympic Peninsula. His father, Ronald L. Dodge was also a marine. His family was travelers and explorers of Scottish-Irish descent. Due to his father’s occupation and interest in many different cultures, Mick lived in various places in America in his young age.
Short Bio
Mick Dodge carries an American nationality as he was born in Olympic Peninsula, Washington. He completed his high school from Kubasaki High School in Okinawa, Japan. As per wiki, Mick is a dweller of Hoh Rainforest. He becomes stressed with the modern world and choose to retreat in dense forest dwelling as a nomad. He has got a nickname as 'The Barefoot Sensei.'
